Italians in Romania
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Italian Romanians (Italian: italo-romeni; Romanian: italo-români) are Romanian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Romania during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Romania.
Quick Facts Italo-romeni (Italian)Italo-români (Romanian), Total population ...
Total population | |
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c. 9,000 (by ancestry) c. 80,000 (by birth)[3] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Suceava County, Bacău County, Galați County, Iași County, Constanța County, Brașov County, Prahova County, Vâlcea County and Timiș County) and in the Municipality of Bucharest | |
Languages | |
Romanian · Italian and Italian dialects | |
Religion | |
Roman Catholicism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Italians, Italian Belgians, Italian Britons, Italian Finns, Italian French, Italian Germans, Italian Spaniards, Italian Swedes, Italian Swiss, Corfiot Italians, Genoese in Gibraltar, Italians of Crimea, Italians of Odesa |
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Italians have been present in Romania since the first half of the 19th century, when they emigrated from some Italian regions (particularly from Veneto and Friuli) to work in the mines, railway yards or construction.[4]